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Convergence of PLM with IIoT
Published in Uthayan Elangovan, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), 2020
Slowly, PLM has started to redefine the value of data in the manufacturing sector, transforming the product development in today’s digital age. Regulatory compliance and data traceability require an effective integration of design and manufacturing applications. PLM is considered the backbone that allows successful collaboration with other manufacturing applications. It started with integration of PDM with PLM followed by ERP with PLM. The development of technologies such as computer-aided design, computer-integrated manufacturing, computer-aided engineering, and digital mockups forms the basis of digital collaboration.
Shifting Participatory Design Approaches for Increased Resilience
Published in IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors, 2021
Steven C. Mallam, Kjetil Nordby, Per Haavardtun, Hanna Nordland, Tine Viveka Westerberg
Digital collaboration can be used not only as an alternative solution to physical interactions, but also as a supplement that can facilitate the quality and efficiency of planned discrete in-person events, such as interviews, user-tests, and field testing. For example, utilizing lower-threshold, lower-cost digital sessions before and/or after more intensive in-person data collections will facilitate a common understanding and expectations between the multidisciplinary stakeholders. Using digital documentation and communication also extends to real-world worksites, where SMEs, such as seafarers, can provide insights into their work tasks and design-specific needs through such self-reporting techniques as video ethnography, photo diaries, sketches, or text. We look to further reduce the barriers to restricted areas and empower end-users to identify, document, and follow-up on differing real-world issues for which they identify as important to highlight or require change. Empowering workers expertise and perspective through these types of relatively simple methods creates a powerful form of knowledge capture directly by SMEs themselves within their real-world working environment, whilst also reducing or eliminating middlemen and resources in knowledge capture and sharing processes. This provides both valuable insights and context for participatory design processes, as well as being beneficial for more general management and knowledge sharing practices within and across a project(s), department(s) or organization(s).